James D. Best
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 23 cm
Description
It's the summer of 1880, and Thomas Edison's incandescent bulb is poised to put the gaslight industry out of business. Knowing a good business opportunity, former New York shopkeeper Steve Dancy sets out to obtain a license for Edison's electric lamp. Edison agrees, under one condition: Dancy and his friends must stop the saboteurs who are disrupting his electrification of Wall Street. After two years of misadventures out West, the assignment appears...
4) No peace
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
326 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"After marriage, Steve Dancy has quietly settled in San Diego. He can hardly remember his days of wanderlust, and he's grateful to have left behind the violence of a raw frontier. In a celebratory mood, Steve invites his mother to a meet her new grandchild in a chic resort in Monterey, California. With the delivery of a handwritten note, his world suddenly reverts to the savagery of his bygone days. There will be no peace"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
319 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his New York shop and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. Although he's not looking for trouble, Dancy's infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron."--back cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
350 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Jenny Bolton has plans, and they don't bode well for Steve Dancy. He once served as her paladin, but rejected her without as much as a goodbye. Now four years later, Steve is soon to marry and Jenny is mad for revenge"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"With his new home in Durango, Colorado, the kind with a nice white picket fence, and marriage on the horizon, the last thing Steve Dancy wants is trouble. But when a quarrel with a mining tycoon and his henchmen endangers Dancy's fiancée and friends, he has no choice but to fight"--
8) Old haunts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
350 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Sometimes the past refuses to remain sealed off from the present. In Old Haunts, Steve Dancy must deal with villains and locales from his early days exploring the Wild West. Years have gone by since violence was necessary to resolve problems, but his calm routines and growing family are shaken by dishonest characters intruding on his easy life. When Steve and his friend Jeff Sharp go to visit Joseph McAllen, former Pinkerton Captain, they don't expect...